Wednesday, July 20, 2016

He'll be too busy making America great again

by digby

You may have noticed that the Trump family seems to be obsessed with John Kasich. This may be why:

One day this past May, Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., reached out to a senior adviser to Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, who left the presidential race just a few weeks before. As a candidate, Kasich declared in March that Trump was “really not prepared to be president of the United States,” and the following month he took the highly unusual step of coordinating with his rival Senator Ted Cruz in an effort to deny Trump the nomination. But according to the Kasich adviser (who spoke only under the condition that he not be named), Donald Jr. wanted to make him an offer nonetheless: Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history?

When Kasich’s adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father’s vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy.

Then what, the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of?

“Making America great again” was the casual reply.

Paul Manafort has been openly feuing with Kasich for refusing to attend the convention in his own state. Yesterday Don junior was visibly upset that the Ohio delegation gave all their votes to Kasich in the roll call. And last night Trump himself weirdly interject, apropos of nothing, "we're gonna win Ohio!" in his video at the RNC.

They are definitely nursing a grudge. If they understand how bad this anecdote sounds (and it's not clear that they would) this will only add fuel to the fire.